September 22, 2013

Sunday Morning Kick Off

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Am I the only person watching the Emmys (Mrs H has it on and I can't escape it) who is wondering why the cabal of cable mafia has frozen certain shows out? For all the circle jerking about Breaking Bad, I've seen and enjoyed it but why POI doesn't even get a nomination for carrying on multiple plot threads of similar ethical and moral complexity is a mystery to me.

Mad Ben's decision to take another lap on the QE tiger is, IMO, another indication of the "nobody knows". I really believe the Fed has been surprised by the hours cut and by the impact on the economy of the return to normal SS taxes. I have a feeling we'll all be able to hear Mad Ben's sigh of relief to dump the coming mess in Yellen's lap. I also believe she's singularly unprepared for the job she's about to misundertake.

We can anticipate a flood of FecesBook "likes" when the BOzocare drag out commences but they won't be from the 40-64 yo bracket getting the bill.

let the turmoil continue -and worsen - without a trace of any fingerprint on it but those of Obama, Pelosi and Reid.

DoT, you have more confidence than I do that the blame even under the status quo will fall on those three. You think they won't find ways to blame Republicans, and that the DeMSM won't fall into lockstep?

Republican lawmakers have failed in dozens of attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, but a new USA TODAY/Pew Research Center Poll shows just how difficult they have made it for President Obama's signature legislative achievement to succeed.

You see, it's all the negativity from the GOP that's making the public not enthusiastic, and thereby bringing about its failure. It would work just fine if the GOP would just climb on board and rally the troops.

"We went as a nation into Somalia to help stabilize the country and most importantly to fight terror that had been unleashed on Kenya and the world," said Kenyatta. "We shall not relent on the war on terror."
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta

If only our Kenyan president could have the same view of terrorism as their Kenyan president.

Good read by Richard Fernandez (Wretchard) on the western bred Nairobi Islamic murderers: Americans Abroad

But I especially like this from Wretchard in the comments:

wretchard
If the majority of the al-Shabaab attackers came from American, British or European Islamic communities it will speak volumes for the virulence of these multicultural petrie dishes. The good thing about living in the third world, and presumably for Muslims living among themselves, is that they can see both the weaknesses and strengths of their religion.

On the other hand, Muslims in the West have no such contact with a reality check. They are fed a diet of pure unadulterated fantasy in universities whose faculty have departed this galaxy long ago. There is no hater like the product our proud progressive culture. Pity the Africans who had to endure the BS outcome of the great Western liberal experiment.

You know the Captain, the Emmye didn't pay attention to Burn Notice either, despite it's ratings, yes it's an action show, but
Caviezel shows as much range as the others,
then again they are the good guys, rather ambiguously, there also is no shout out, for my fave byzantine soap, Revenge,

JournoList is another story that should have been HUGE.
It was happening while the WaPo was slandering the tea party rallies, the CBC was setting up their big lie story about the March 20th, 2010 rally, the IRS was targeting groups,...

and I posted once how some of the JournoListers were from 501(c)3 & 4 organizations.

Americans need to wake up about how corrupt our media are. It's not just bias. It is active coordination between lib. advocacy organizations, the Dems, & the press....& how our govt. agencies are now being used to carry out their agendas.

They are all a part of it, Janet, I recognize Schreiber, as the one who thought Sarah was driven by ressentiment, anyways that was the consensus, they decided upon.

So the apparent leader of the Westgate Massacre. is like D-Dawg's wife, a white widow to the British national of Jamaican background, Jermaine Lindsay. she was one of the reasons for that alert last month,

Eight more days until the lid is partially raised on the BOzocare box of chocolates. Even then, if the California exchange is a good example, the exchanges aren't going to provide all the information necessary to determine your eligibility for welfare.

Even reasonably competent sources such as this one miss out on the nuances of very important elements of the IRS rules.

If you are 62-64 and are receiving SS, the total received rather than the taxable portion is used to calculate MAGI.

Modified adjusted gross income is the adjusted gross income on your federal income tax return plus any excluded foreign income, nontaxable Social Security benefits (including tier 1 railroad retirement benefits), and tax-exempt interest received or accrued during the taxable year.

Geeezers in waiting with AGIs of $55K who are anticipating a nice welfare bonus are in for a rude awakening if they are depending upon the advice of "experts" rather than doing appropriate research.

Not only does that include the military that protects us, but also the government employees
who review the disaster plans for the rabbits plus the employee who double checks the disaster plans for the rabbits to make sure they haven't missed any rabbits.
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No mention of his political party.

"The mayor’s tax returns remain locked up, though they were allowed a conjugal visit with the press: Nine reporters, all hand-picked by the Booker campaign, were permitted three hours with the documents in a hotel ballroom in Newark — no photographs, no copies, no removing documents from the room, resulting in what one of the reporters present described as a mad scramble to record information as the clock ticked to zero."

Reminds me of Obama's birth certificate & a more recent one...was it Benghazi(?) where the reporters just had to take notes?

The actual AGI/MAGI line is $45,960 for an individual, $62,040 for a couple. Individuals with AGIs of $40-41K who are anticipating welfare bonuses are in the same boat as couples with an AGI of $55K (based upon minimum SS payments).

There are other interesting perversions within BOzocare which will become apparent as the drag out begins. It really is a very nasty wealth transfer scheme which is going to bring "unexpectedly" back into vogue in reporting on news about the economy.

Well, the American Left in general, and the democratic party in particular has a huge crush on the "moderate Islamist" bad boys of the Brotherhood. I'm sure their shared deep anti-Semitism has nothing to do with it.

Apparently, there is a need to prepare the faithful for disappointment.

But they rarely mention one big reason: many insurers are significantly limiting the choices of doctors and hospitals available to consumers.

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Some consumer advocates and health care providers are increasingly concerned. Decades of experience with Medicaid, the program for low-income people, show that having an insurance card does not guarantee access to specialists or other providers.

And some who thought they were going to be big winners and catch a ride on the gravy train are discovering the ObamaCare did not repeal the laws of economics:

Daniel R. Hawkins Jr., a senior vice president of the National Association of Community Health Centers, which represents 9,000 clinics around the country, said: “We serve the very population that will gain coverage — low-income, working class uninsured people. But insurers have shown little interest in including us in their provider networks.”

Dr. Bruce Siegel, the president of America’s Essential Hospitals, formerly known as the National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems, said insurers were telling his members: “We don’t want you in our network. We are worried about having your patients, who are sick and have complicated conditions.”

In some cases, Dr. Siegel said, “health plans will cover only selected services at our hospitals, like trauma care, or they offer rock-bottom payment rates.”

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Dr. Barbara L. McAneny, a cancer specialist in Albuquerque, said that insurers in the New Mexico exchange were generally paying doctors at Medicare levels, which she said were “often below our cost of doing business, and definitely below commercial rates.”

Oh well, maybe next time they will want to read the bill before the support passage of it.

Dr. Siegel hoped that ObummerCare exchanges would get his Third World staffed clinics out of MediCaid reimbursement into a higher fee schedule... sorry Doc, all you get from ObummerCare is more Medicaid customer volume, your rates will still be below commercial viability.

Americans need to wake up about how corrupt our media are. It's not just bias. It is active coordination between lib. advocacy organizations, the Dems, & the press....& how our govt. agencies are now being used to carry out their agendas.

A growing majority of Americans don't and won't care imo. I can't imagine a reasonable scenario where that will no longer be the case.